The Subscriber and His Newspaper. “- Listen darling, the first three columns of my morning paper are completely empty! It seems that they must have really said some nasty things. - May quite well be, but now that you mention it, to write nothing at all, I find that even more nasty!,” plate 2 from Caricatures Du Jour
Medium
Lithograph in black on ivory wove paper
Dimensions
Image: 16.6 × 23.3 cm (6 9/16 × 9 3/16 in.); Sheet: 24.8 × 33.2 cm (9 13/16 × 13 1/8 in.)
Classification
lithograph
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
63489
Rights
Public Domain
About the Artist
Honoré-Victorin Daumier · 1808–1879
Honoré-Victorin Daumier (1808-1879) was a prolific French printmaker, caricaturist, painter, and sculptor whose works offered incisive commentary on the social and political life of 19th-century France. Known as the 'Michelangelo of Caricature,' Daumier produced over 4,000 lithographs, 500 paintings, 1,000 drawings, and 100 sculptures during his lifetime. His biting political satire led to his imp...